From ancient tunnels to modern memorials, a week in the Holy Land offers a powerful blend of prayer, discovery and awe.

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones ...

south of Masada. Commonly believed to be a burial site, a wealth of remarkable artifacts, including papyri, bronze vessels, ...

Archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old Greek pyramid-shaped structure near the Dead Sea, believed to be a former desert ...

"Live free or die!"' The Masada myth does not begin in the twentieth century. Chart of the fortress at Masada.

“Eventually, we identified it as a tower or fortress dating back to the Hellenistic period, or 2,200 years ago.” At the time, Israel was ruled by the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a Greek kingdom whose ...

Active during the time the Ptolemies and Seleucids ruled Israel, the site roughly 12 miles south of Masada and described ... include that the building was a fortress to defend the road, but ...